Thurman Munson New York Yankees Memorabilia and Apparel

New York Yankees Thurman Munson Jersey T-Shirt Large

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Thurman Munson was an catcher who played with the New York Yankees from 1969 to 1979. Munson was killed at age 32 while trying to land his personal airplane. Munson was selected by the Yankees with the fourth pick in the first round of the 1968 amateur draft. He was named the American League Rookie of the Year in 1970 after batting .302 with seven home runs and 57 RBI, and making 80 assists. In 1976, he was voted the American League MVP after batting .302 with 17 home runs and 105 RBI, and stealing 14 bases. He is the only Yankee ever to win both the Rookie of the Year and Most Valuable Player awards. On August 2, 1979, he was killed while practicing takeoffs and landings in his new Cessna Citation I/SP jet at the Akron-Canton Regional Airport. To this day, despite a packed clubhouse, an empty locker with Munson's number 15 on it, remains as a tribute to the Yankees' lost catcher. The original locker that Munson used, along with a bronzed set of his catching equipment, was donated to the Baseball Hall of Fame (Munson himself is not in the Hall, generally considered by most sportswriters to be a "borderline" candidate at best due to the brevity of his career).